How common is the surname Goodin?

7,153 people in the United States had the surname Goodin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,163 Americans. It ranked 4,917th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Goodin getting more or less common?

More common. 6,894 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,153 in 2010, up 3.8%.

The surname Goodin

A surname, carried by 7,153 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Goodin is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,153 people named Goodin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 43,163 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,894.

#4,917

rank among US surnames

7,153

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.8%

change since 2000 (was #4,703)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,908	Pride	7,172	43,049
#4,909	Encarnacion	7,171	43,055
#4,910	Null	7,170	43,061
#4,912	Binkley	7,159	43,127
#4,913	Blodgett	7,157	43,139
#4,914	Garrity	7,156	43,145
#4,915	Phung	7,155	43,151

Who is named Goodin

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

86% of people named Goodin identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.3%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Goodin

Goodin has the Soundex code G350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G350.

Questions

How common is the surname Goodin?: 7,153 people in the United States had the surname Goodin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 43,163 Americans. It ranked 4,917th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Goodin?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Goodin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Goodin getting more or less common?: More common. 6,894 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,153 in 2010, up 3.8%.